![LMR Sampler: Get on the Bus [free download]](http://lemonmerchantrecords.files.wordpress.com/2012/01/lmr-no1.jpg?w=90&h=70&crop=1 "LMR Sampler: Get on the Bus [free download]")
LMR Sampler: Get on the Bus [free download]
Happy new year, friends. We hope your 2012 is off to a fresh start. Up here in Boston we’re suffering through the usual intense chill that happens around this time of year. (8°F this morning without the wind chill, kiddos.) However, at least we haven’t had to shovel an ounce of snow; it’s the little things that count, eh?
But enough of my meteorological banality. There’s business to take care of and news to be dispensed.
We’re very pleased to announce Get on the Bus, a sampler featuring tunes from The Wandas, Aloud, When Particles Collide, and The Bynars. All four bands perform next month at upstart Somerville, Mass. venue Radio on Saturday, February 18. Cover for the 21+ show is only $5.
Get on the Bus may be downloaded here for free, so share it with your friends and invite them to come down to the show!
Saturday, February 18 — 9pm
Radio
379 Somerville Ave, Somerville, MA (map)
featuring The Wandas, Aloud, When Particles Collide, and The Bynars
21+ | $5 | Facebook event page
Download LMR Sampler: Get on the Bus
Blowing up the ocean: DigBoston’s 2011 Last Call
Photo: Michael Basu/DigBoston
Last week, a panoply of Boston area performers turned up for DigBoston’s “Last Call”.
Aloud was joined by groups like Kingsley Flood, Mellow Bravo, Mean Creek, You Can Be a Wesley, The Boston Pops, Viva Viva, and many others to talk about the last year and the one coming up.
Champagne was sprayed, beer was on tap, and a good time was had by all over at the DigBoston compound.
Head over here to read DigBoston’s whole piece and see some festive photos.
We’ll see you all in 2012. Have a happy new year, eh?
Aloud featured on "The Gratitude Tracks"
The folks at Vend.Love.Win have put together a compilation of acts who participated in the Gratitude Tour this past September.
Two songs from Aloud’s latest release, Exile, top off the 17 track compilation (“Counterfeit Star” and “Darkest Days”).
Other artists on the compilation include Zak Smith, Under the Elephant, Emily Brooke, Rollie, Marmalakes, GABE, and What Moves.
Head over to the Vend.Love.Win music store on Facebook to download ‘em all for free!
Aloud celebrates the release of “The Cash and the Pearls” with November residency in Boston
Back from a stint through the Rust Belt and the East Coast, the gang at Base Camp Aloud is happy to reveal the cover art for the upcoming single “The Cash and the Pearls” (click on the thumbnail to your right to enlarge). The cover was designed by the equal parts lovely and amazing Erin Genett, who’s designed wonderful posters like this one for Aloud in the past.
“The Cash and the Pearls” will be bundled with the b-side “So Long”. The single—produced with bassist/maker of mouth sounds Charles Murphy, mastered by Jeff Lipton, and featuring original Aloud member Ross Lohr on drums—drops on November 1st, 2011 via digital download.
"The Cash and the Pearls"—new single, tour next month
New single out this November
Without a doubt, it’s been a long and restless summer. After months touring the U.S., Aloud took a bit of a breather to regroup, write some new tunes, and enjoy being home for a spell.
Now that’s all behind us, we’re pleased as Punch to announce Aloud’s new single “The Cash and the Pearls” will be out this November on Lemon Merchant Records. The digital-only single will be coupled with the exclusive b-side track “So Long” and features artwork by Erin Genett. Original Aloud member and current stick man for The Painted Lights, Ross Lohr, makes a guest appearance behind the kit.
Lemon Merchant email list + Cold Blood Club
Hello gang, here we are with another update of our slow and steady build-up.
List subscription.
We’re working on some neat stuff at the moment (really, when aren’t we?) that we hope will be out by year’s end. We’d love for you to be the first to know about it. There may also be some exclusive free stuff in it for you if you join our little cult club.
(Sorry, did I say cult?)
Anyway, click here and you’ll know what to do: http://eepurl.com/fuCos
We’ll keep your info secret and safe.
Cold Blood Club.
While you’re here intently perusing the wild, wild internets, lend your ears to Cold Blood Club. The group, featuring members of Radio America and EarlyMay, is working on some music and performing out in NYC at the moment. The Brooklyn act has two songs, “Down” and “Ladies & Gentlemen”, posted up on Soundcloud: http://soundcloud.com/cold-blood-club.
Videos posted + a new storefront
Our video area: now with 100% more music videos, the 2008 documentary Hard Up In The 2000s, and Vitamin D.
Hello all! Two sections of our site are now open for business, both figuratively and literally.
Video.
Vids have been posted on the video page. We’ve thrown the latest music videos at the top of the heap. However, most notably we’ve posted our 2008 film Hard Up In The 2000s in its entirety and in higher quality (it had only been previously available in 10 parts). The feature length documentary catches Aloud in the midst of their first real touring adventure through the South, Midwest, and back home in the Northeast. The film also features live performances from the first leg of the Fan The Fury tour (March – April 2008) and interviews with the band during and after the successful tour.
![Berklee at SXSW 2011 Recap [video]](http://lemonmerchantrecords.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/aloud_kellydavidson_sxsw.png?w=90&h=70&crop=1 "Berklee at SXSW 2011 Recap [video]")
Berklee at SXSW 2011 Recap [video]
Boston’s Berklee School of Music has just a short video from their SXSW party.
The video features performances from the March show at Friends and interviews with Aloud, Art Decade, Stereo Telescope, The Boston Boys, Julia Easterlin, Emily Elbert, Audio Runner, Laura Jansen, and Black Kettle.
You can watch the video below, or click here to view it on the Berklee site.
Aloud is currently working with the Berklee City Music program on BANDED.
Tour diary
Photo: Jess Hodge
This month’s issue of Peformer Magazine is out! The print edition of the June issue features the long-awaited Tour Diary feature on Aloud and the Exile U.S. tour, as well as a blurb from Henry summarizing the whole experience.
Eighty-three shows and seven months later, the result has been one of the most amazing experiences of both our careers and our lives. … Mark Twain once wrote, ‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness,’ and after four months of traveling the nation’s highways, I can certify that the old man was damn right.
The magazine culled photos from various photographers on the Exile tour. The diary features photos from Stephanie Hastings of A to Zed Photography and Jess Hodge.
Print editions of Performer Magazine are available for free all over the country, and may also be downloaded as a pdf: http://www.performermag.com/pdf/Performer_Magazine_June_2011.pdf#page=48
For more photos from Aloud’s months-long trek across the nation by some other wonderful and talented photographers, visit Aloud’s blog: http://www.allthingsaloud.com/2011/06/performer-magazine-tour-diary/
New storefront + Exile on vinyl
As part of the general site re-vamp, we’ll be creating a Lemon Merchant storefront soon. Thusly, we present the question to you, dear reader: apart from music, what kinds of items would you like to see in the store? Shirts? Hoodies? Coffee mugs? Back scratchers?
Leave us a comment or shoot an e-mail over to info@lemonmerchantrecords.com (we promise it’ll get through… that little problem’s been nipped in the bud).
In other news, there has been serious discussion of releasing Aloud’s latest record Exile on vinyl. Having Exile available in this format has been a goal of the band since they began working on it way back in 2009. Aloud is soliciting feedback during this process and would like you to join in on the conversation.
Read all about it in one of their recent blog posts, Vinyl Siding: http://www.allthingsaloud.com/2011/05/vinyl-siding/
